This Day in Goodlove History, February 8

• This Day in Goodlove History, February 8

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.

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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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A point of clarification. If anybody wants to get to the Torah site, they do not have to go thru Temple Judah. They can use http://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com and that will take them right to it.



The Goodlove Reunion 2011 will be held Sunday, June 12 at Horseshoe Falls Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park, Central City, Iowa. This is the same lodge we used for the previous reunions. Contact Linda at pedersen37@mchsi.com

Birthdays on this date; Cora M. Winch, Bertha E. Winch, John J. Wagner, Hiram Vance, Jonathan Plum, Steven M. Mendoza, Marjorie E. Jenkins, Benjamin Harrison, Mildred Godlove

Weddings on this date; Abigail Brown and Nathan Winch

February 8, 1291: Birthdate of King Alfonso IV of Portugal who increased the taxes paid by the Jews, load to “reinstituted the dormant requirement that Jews wear an identifying yellow badge, and restricted their freedom to emigrate.”[1]

February 8, 1587: After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England for her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I.

In 1542, while just six days old, Mary ascended to the Scottish throne upon the death of her father, King James V. Her mother sent her to be raised in the French court, and in 1558 she married the French dauphin, who became King Francis II of France in 1559 but died the following year. After Francis' death, Mary returned to Scotland to assume her designated role as the country's monarch.

In 1565, she married her English cousin Lord Darnley in order to reinforce her claim of succession to the English throne after Elizabeth's death. In 1567, Darnley was mysteriously killed in an explosion at Kirk o' Field, and Mary's lover, the Earl of Bothwell, was the key suspect. Although Bothwell was acquitted of the charge, his marriage to Mary in the same year enraged the nobility. Mary brought an army against the nobles, but was defeated and imprisoned at Lochleven, Scotland, and forced to abdicate in favor of her son by Darnley, James.

In 1568, Mary escaped from captivity and raised a substantial army but was defeated and fled to England. Queen Elizabeth initially welcomed Mary but was soon forced to put her friend under house arrest after Mary became the focus of various English Catholic and Spanish plots to overthrow Elizabeth. Nineteen years later, in 1586, a major plot to murder Elizabeth was reported, and Mary was brought to trial. She was convicted for complicity and sentenced to death.

On February 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason. Her son, King James VI of Scotland, calmly accepted his mother's execution, and upon Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 he became king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.[2]

1587

Resuming our chronological order, we find that in the year 1587 one of the greatest feuds that ever raged between Highland clans, commenced between the MacLeans and Macdonalds. It is recorded, that at length Macdonald (through mediation) agreed, on receiving a promise of pardon for his crimes, to allow his prisoner MacLean to be set free, but eight hostages of rank had to be given, and among them were Lauchlan and Neill, sons of Lauchlan MacKinnon of Strathordell. MacLean, regardless of the safety of his hostages, wasted Macdonald's lands during his absence in Ireland, whereon Macdonald retaliated, but luckily not on the hostages, who were ultimately demanded and taken by force from Macdonald (who was then outlawed), for he refused to deliver them up to the king and council.[3]

February 8, 1693

The College of William & Mary is established in Virginia,[4] by King William III and Queen Mary II.[5]

February 8 & 9, 1713/14
Essex County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1711-1714, p. 180. Lease and Release. February 8 and 9, 1713/14. Andrew2 Harrison, Junr., of St. Marys Par., sells Nathaniel Vickers of same Par., 100 acres being part of a patent granted John Prosser, dec'd., on Golden Vale Creek, adj. the land of Richard Long, etc. Signed Andrew2 Harrison. Wit: Robert Jones, Robert Parker. Rec. February 11, 1713/14. Elizabeth harrison, wife of Andrew2 harrison, by John Battaile her attorney, relinq. he dower rights. Signed Elizabeth x Harrison. Wit: jno Row, Michael Lawless. Rec. February 12 1713/14. [6]

1725

William and Valentine Crawford’s father dies mysteriously.[7]

1725
In 1725, Harry Beverley sold 600 acres of land on Pamunkey River to Andrew2 Harrison of Essex County. The tract was near Spotswood's Germanna patent, in an area that generated interest in mineral wealth. [8]

February 8, 1725: Peter The Great, Russian Czar, passed away at the age of 52. Peter’s determination to keep the Jews out of his realm and his treatment of Russian Jews was not the picture of “enlightenment.” From the point of Jewish history he certainly was not the “Great.”[9] Several DNA matches indicate their earliest known ancestors are from Russia.

February 8, 1780: On February 8th the fleet received orders that no one should stray from his ship, and that we were to haul in the flatboats and to weigh anchor at the cannon shot fired by the Roebuck.

In the forenoon of the 9th the fleet weighed anchor and set sail. At two o’clock in the afternoon the ships move to off Trench Island25 to assemble, and about four o’clock dropped anchor near this island. On the morning of the 10th the fleet, consisting of some sixty sail, got on there way and set course NE along the coast. In the vicinity of the Port Royal River we found the warships Romulus and own cruising, since a number of American privateers and row galleys e stationed in this river. Toward evening anchor was cast near Hunt-Island. We were at latitude 31° 52’ north.

Early on the morning of the 11th the fleet set sail. The wind was so stable that about noon we reached the mouth of the North Edisto, toward evening the harbor, which forms a circular basin in which one hundred ships can ride at anchor. Although the mouth of this is so narrow that only two ships at a time can wind through the [bars, Captain Elphinstone guided the entire fleet through safely. We dropped anchor near Simmons Island,26 the coastline of which is a part of the basin.

Toward evening a signal was given to lower the flatboats in the water, to provide the troops with provisions for four days. At the same time her signal was given for the commanders of troops to go on board Roebuck, where the Commanding General issued the following orders disembarkation

FIRST DISEMBARKATION

English grenadiers and light infantry under General Leslie, with whom the Commanding General and Lord Cornwallis.

SECOND DISEMBARKATION -

Hessian grenadiers, the jäger detachment, and the 33d Regiment, were to perform the service of light infantry. The first was placed r General Kospoth and the last two under Brigadier Webster, a very Drious man.

THIRD DISEMBARKATION

The 7th and 23d regiments under Brigadier Clarke.27 The 63d, 64th, and the Hessian Garrison Regiment Huyn under General Huyn.

PART TWO

From the landing on Simmons Island up to the arrival on

James Island.

On the same evening, about ten o’clock, the beginning of the disem­barkation was carried out in a strong wind. But since the weather grew constantly worse, no more than the first disembarkation and a part of the Hessian grenadiers could be put ashore.

On the 12th at daybreak all the troops disembarked without the guns (except the four amusettes of the light infantry, which the men them­selves had to remove) or any of the baggage, not even a horse for the Commander in Chief. He informed all the officers, in the most polite manner, to look after their most necessary equipment as soon as possible. Hence, no officer had any more with him than what his servant could carry in his hands.

Toward ten o’clock the troops set out through a pathless and marshy wood, which continued with the greatest difficulty until five o’clock in the evening. A path often had to be cut through the bushes with axes and bayonets in water up to the waist.[10]

February 8, 1781



George Rogers Clark Papers [microform] At the Virginia State Library and Archives Reel 6, #1000

February 8, 1782

Concerning the expedition to the “Moravian towns “—known in history as “Williamson’s expedition,” from Col. David,Williamson, the one who com­manded it — and the investigation which followed, only a brief account in this connection can be given.

Early in 1782, war parties committed sundry depredations upon the border. The first was the killing of John Fink, a young man, near Buchanan fort. The particulars are as follow: “On the 8th of February, 1782, while Henry Fink and his son John were engaged in sledding rails on their farm in the Buchanan settlement, several guns were simultaneously discharged at them, and before John had time to reply to his father’s inquiry whether he was hurt, another gun was fired and he fell lifeless. Having unlinked the chain which fastened the horse to the sled, the old man galloped briskly away. He reached his home in safety, and immediately moved his family to the fort.”—.[11]

February 8, 1782



Colonel Washington acquired a measure of title to the Fort Necessity plantinat Great Meadows on October 17, when he purchased the interest of William Brooks in a survey dated February 14, 1771, based on an earlier application to the land Office of Pennsylvania, June 13, 1769. He did not perfect this title until after the Revolution, when on February 28, 1782 he secured a patent for tract called “Mt Washington, situate on the east side of Laurel Hill where Braddock’s Road crosses the Great Meadows, formerly Bedford County, now in the county of Westmoreland, containing 234 ½ acres.” This patent is recorded in Fayette



Countyl Pennsylvania, in “Deed book 507,” page 458 and shows a consideration of ₤33 15s. 6d. He purchased the right fo William Athel on February 12, 1782, in an application filed by Athel on April 3, 1769, and had this title perfected by a patent from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, February 8, 1782. For a consideration of ₤48 3s. 5d., Pennsylvania granted to him called “Spring Run.” On the south side of Youghiogheny, on the waters of said river, formerly in Cumberland, now in Westmoreland County, containing three hundred thirty-one acres, one hundred forty-seven perches, and bounded bye lands of Thomas Jones John Patty, John Pearsall, and Washington’s other lands. These other lands were those which Washington had personally applied for on April 3, 1769, when the land office was opened, and which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted to him February 8, 1782, for a consideration of ₤48 7d., and described as the “Meadow,” situate on the south side of “Youghogeni” on the waters of said river, formerly in Cumberland County, now in Westmorelamnd County, bounded by John Darsall’s (Pearsall’s, William Athel’s, John Patty’s and John Bishop’s. The deeds for these two tracts are recorded in Fayette County in “Deed Book 180,” pages 294, 296, respectively.



George Washington owned the Great Meadows tract at the time of his death on December 14, 1799, and under the authority containede in his will, William A. Washington, George S. Washington, Samuel Washington, and George W. P. Custis, his executors, by Bushrod Washington and Lawrence Lewis, their attorneys, conveyed the Great Meadows to Andrew Parks of the town of Baltimore. By later conveyances this historic shrine has come under the control of the Pennsyvania Department of Forests and Waters, with the actual fort site deeded to the United States of America.[1] [1] [12]

February 8, 1827: John Vance, 1754. (or 1746 according to his pension application). He was married in October 1773, by his uncle Col. Wm. Crawford in southwestern PA, to Nancy ?. John served in the Rev. war as a sargeant major and was wounded at Germantown. Both John and his wife recieved pensions for his REV war service (W. 6338). [13]John died February 8, 1827. The place of his death is uncertain from the pension file. Nancy filed for her widow's pension from Pendelton Co, not WVA. She died February 8, 1845. [14]

February 8, 1831: Louis Philippe of France, successor to Charles X, ratified a motion putting Judaism on a par with Christianity, granting State support to Synagogues and their Minister of Religion. This meant that France extended financial support to Jewish religious institutions on par with Christian institutions.[15]

1831-1847: The Associate Judge of Clark County from 1831 to 1847 was Daniel McKinnon…

February 8, 1845: : The Adm. of Nancy Vance, decd.....paid from March 4, 1844 to September 4, 1844.

FINAL PAYMENT RECORD

Date of death of Nancy Vance is given as February 8, 1845. Payment made to Law. Marx, Atty., February 5, 1846. Ricmond Roll. No other genealogical data of interest.[16]



Mon. February 8, 1864

Passed many plantations, milligans bend, men plowing, foggy at night – cant anchor 90 miles above vixburg saw many negro camps [17]

February 8, 1867: The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The Ausgleich refers to the compromise document that changed the Austrian Empire into the dual monarchy that put Hungary on level playing field with the previously dominate Germanic (Austrian) element of the Hapsburg Empire. The reform came about as a result of Austria’s defeat at the hands of Prussia. (Yes this gets complicated; but if you want to understand the fate of the Jews of Europe you have to understand European history.) Following the Law of Unintended consequences, The Ausgleich had a profound effect on the Jews living under the rule of the Habsburgs. “With the “Ausgleich” between Austria and Hungary in 1867, Jews finally gained full citizen rights. Vienna was now the city in the Habsburg Empire with the largest Jewish community (40,000 or 6.6 percent). Most of the Viennese Jews were of Bohemian, Moravian and Hungarian origin, while others were from the poor area of Galicia. Jewish communities in other parts of the Empire developed, even in cities that have not had any Jews for a long time, such as Salzburg (part of Austria since 1816).” Today we seem to have forgotten the prominent role that Vienna played in European and Jewish culture.[18]

1867



Six children of William Harrison Goodlove and Sarah Catherine Pyle were born between 1867 and 1882; he would have been 46 and Sarah would have been 38 when Jessie Pearl was born. (Ref#46) [19]



1867

At wars end Southern States Legislatures passed measures designed to maintain white superiourity. These laws known as black codes severely curtailed the newly freed slaves civil rights. In effect, returning them to a state of bondage and making them second class citizens. In response, angry Congressional republicans passed the Reconstruction act of 1867. A strict set of laws that temporarily abolished southern state governments, divided the south into military districts, and gave blacks the right to vote. The defeated south again felt invaded by the Northern authority. White supremacy was threatened.

Soon after passage of the reconstruction act, Clan leaders from all over Tennessee held a secret meeting in Nashville. The man granted control of the clan was Nathan Bedford Forest, former Confederate General and out spoken critic of Federal Reconstruction.[20]

February 8, 1910: Boy Scouts of America. Incorporated on February 8, 1910, the movement soon spread throughout the country. In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of America in Savannah, Georgia.

In 1916, Baden-Powell organized the Wolf Cubs, which caught on as the Cub Scouts in the United States, for boys under the age of 11. Four years later, the first international Boy Scout Jamboree was held in London, and Baden-Powell was acclaimed Chief Scout of the world. He died in 1941.[21] Robert Baden-Powell was a Freemason. The compiler was an Eagle Scout and is also a Freemason.

On February 8, 1915, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, a landmark film in the history of cinema, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles. The silent film was America's first feature-length motion picture and a box-office smash, and during its unprecedented three hours Griffith popularized countless filmmaking techniques that remain central to the art today. However, because of its explicit racism, Birth of a Nation is also regarded as one of the most offensive films ever made. Actually titled The Clansman for its first month of release, the film provides a highly subjective history of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Studied today as a masterpiece of political propaganda, Birth of a Nation caused riots in several cities and was banned in others but was seen by millions.

David Wark Griffith was born in La Grange, Kentucky, in 1875, the son of an ex-Confederate colonel. His father died when he was seven, and he later dropped out of high school to help support his family. After holding various jobs, he began a successful career as a theater actor. He wrote several plays and, on the advice of a colleague, sent some scenarios for one-reel films to the Edison Film Company and the Biograph Company. In 1908, he was hired as an actor and writer for the Biograph studio and soon was promoted to a position as director.

Between 1908 and 1913, Griffith made more than 400 short films for Biograph. With the assistance of his talented cinematographer, G W. "Billy" Bitzer, he invented or refined such important cinematic techniques as the close-up, the scenic long shot, the moving-camera shot, and the fade-in and fade-out. His contributions to the art of editing during this period include the flashback and parallel editing, in which two or more separate scenes are intermixed to give the impression that the separate actions are happening simultaneously. He also raised the standard on movie acting, initiating scene rehearsals before shooting and assembling a stock company of film professionals. Many of these actors, including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mae Marsh, and Lionel Barrymore, went on to become some of Hollywood's first movie stars.

Taking his cue from the longer spectacle films produced in Italy, in 1913 Griffith produced Judith of Bethulia, a biblical adaptation that, at four reels, was close to an hour long. It was his last Biograph film. Two years later, he released his epic 10-reel masterpiece, Birth of a Nation, for Mutual Films.

Birth of a Nation, based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, tells the turbulent story of American history in the 1860s, as it followed the fictional lives of two families from the North and the South. Throughout its three hours, African Americans are portrayed as brutish, lazy, morally degenerate, and dangerous. In the film's climax, the Ku Klux Klan rises up to save the South from the Reconstruction Era-prominence of African Americans in Southern public life.

Riots and protests broke out at screenings of Birth of a Nation in a number of Northern cities, and the recently formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) embarked on a major campaign to have the film banned. It eventually was censored in several cities, and Griffith agreed to change or cut out some of the film's especially offensive scenes.

Nevertheless, millions of people happily paid to witness the spectacle of Birth of a Nation, which featured a cast of more 10,000 people and a dramatic story line far more sophisticated than anything released to that date. For all the gross historical inaccuracies, certain scenes, such as meetings of Congress, Civil War battles, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, were meticulously recreated, lending the film an air of legitimacy that made it so effective as propaganda.

The Ku Klux Klan, suppressed by the federal government in the 1870s, was refounded in Georgia in December 1915 by William J. Simmons. In addition to being anti-black, the new Klan was anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant, and by the early 1920s it had spread throughout the North as well as the South. At the peak of its strength in 1924, membership in the KKK is estimated to have been as high as three million. There is no doubt that Birth of a Nation played no small part in winning wide public acceptance for an organization that was originally founded as an anti-black and anti-federal terrorist group.

Of Griffith's later films, Intolerance (1916) is the most important. Hailed by many as the finest achievement of the silent-film era, it pursues four story lines simultaneously, which cumulatively act to prove humanity's propensity for persecution. Some regard it as an effort at atonement by Griffith for Birth of a Nation, while others believe he meant it as an answer to those who persecuted him for his political views. Intolerance was a commercial failure but had a significant influence on the development of film art.

Griffith went on to make 27 more films. In 1919, he founded United Artists with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin.

Before D. W. Griffith's time, motion pictures were short, uninspiring, and poorly produced, acted, and edited. Under his guidance, filmmaking became an art form. Despite the harm his Birth of a Nation inflicted on African Americans, he will forever be regarded as the father of cinema.[22]

1915

The World War I prompts expulsion of 250,000 Jews from Western Russia.



Germans tried to win the support of Jews in Eastern Europe, by promising them liberation from the Russian yoke. Meanwhile the assimilated Jews of Germany showed their patriotism by joining up. 100,000 Jews would fight for the Kaiser. 12,000 German Jewish soldiers were killed in the war. Nearly 30,000 received decorations. But while Jews were tolerated in the German army, many soldiers despised them. [23]



The Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta, Georgia turns the spotlight on anti-Semitism in the United States and leads to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League.[24]



1915: As a Country Life reformer and rural community builder, Chalice missed few opportunities to bering innovations in farm management and rural education to the attention of his congregation. Knowing that “no church could thrive in a nonproductive section or in a community where the labor income was small,” he actively sought help from the Extension Division of the State Agricultural College in the form of written materials, public speakiers, traveling exhibits, and assistance in setting up demonstration projects on a wide rancge of topics of interest to farmers and their wives: silo construction, herd improvement, fruit growing, poultry raising, canning, rural health, and sanitation. This was relatively easy to accomplish because the Extension Division at Ames was already providing instruction and extension services under the auspices of nearby Lenox College, in Hopkinton.[25] Chalice’s interest in the adoption of more scientific agricultural practices and progressive farming was not so narrowly instrumentalist as to be concerned only with augmenting the incomes of his parishioners. He seems genuinely to have believed that the more widespread adoption of these innovations coupled with a spiritual reawakening in the countryside could combine to create something of a rural utropia in the Corn Belt.

Chalice began pushing his congregation at Buck Creek to modernize rural education even before he became their resident pastor. Hence it is not surprixzing that it was he who first planted the idea that rural school consolidation could be a powerful adjunct in the building of a “heaven on earth” Buck Creek. It is in this regard, however, that the historical record of church activities is as obscure as it is incomplete. In chronicling Chalice’s achievenemnts in the Buck Creek Church, a booklet published by the Home Missions Board of the Methodist Church in 1919 is noticeably silent about his success in spurring educational innovations and improvement in the Buck Creek area. The reason for the silence is simple. There were none to report, even though a movement within the Buck Creek Church to consolidate the rural schools of the area had been building momentum ever since 1915.[26]



1915: Warren Winch was the son of one of the well respected Protestant pioneer families in the area. Although the senior Winch was a Universalist, no a Methodist, Warren was a prominent member of the Buck Creek Church. He was also very active in township politics. James “Jimmy” Kehoe was the son of Patrick Kehoe, a pioneer and patriarch of the major landowning Catholic family in the township. At one time it was said that Patrick owned farms in every section in the southern tier of Unioiun Township as well as somne in the northern tier of Castle Grove Township. Patrick had also been a principal benefactor in building the magnificent Catholic church in Castle Gorve. James was hightlyu respected in his own right and for a number of years had been chairman of the Delawasre County board of supervisors. Johnson too was the son of one off the more successful pioneer families in the area. His father, Alexander, a Scots-Irish Presbyterian noted for his hard work and frugality, had assembled the largest contiguous ttract of land under single ownership in the township. One time when asked why he was determined to accumulate so much land, he was reputed to have responded rather matter of factly, “I just want what joins me.” His son, James, a prominent Presbyterian in the Hopkinton church, was viewed as one of the most successful and progressive (these terms were seen as synonymous) farmers in the county. Winch and Kehoe were Democrats; Johnson was a Republcan but was known to cast an “independent ballot” in local elections. Winch was in his late thirties in 1915, while the other two officers were in their midforties. All had large families with school aged children.[27]



1915: "William J. Simmons, a former Methodist preacher, organized a new Klan in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915 as a patriotic, Protestant fraternal society. This new Klan directed its activity against, not just blacks, but any group it considered un-American, including any immigrants, Jews, and Roman Catholics. The Ku Klux Klan grew rapidly from here and had more than 2 million members throughout the country by the mid-1920's." Another (Britannica) read:

"The 20th-century Klan had its roots more directly in the American nativist tradition. It was organized in 1915 near Atlanta, Ga., by Colonel William J. Simmons, a preacher and promoter of fraternal orders who had been inspired by Thomas Dixon's book The Clansman (1905) and D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation (1915). The new organization remained small until Edward Y. Clarke and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler brought to it their talents as publicity agents and fund raisers. The revived Klan was fueled partly by patriotism and partly by a romantic nostalgia for the old South, but, more importantly, it expressed the defensive reaction of white Protestants in small-town America who felt threatened by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and by the large-scale immigration of the previous decades that had changed the ethnic character of American society."[28]





February 8, 1916: RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT

Passed Tuesday, February 8th, 1916 by Marvin Mills Post No. 212, G.A.R.

In Memory of a Deceased Comrade, Wm. H. Goodlove

Died January 17th, 1916

Member of Co. H, 24th Iowa Inft.

Whereas, Our heavenly Father, the Great Commander, has called from our ranks our late comrade and friend, Wm. H. Goodlove, a member of Co. H, 24th Iowa Infantry, and Whereas, It is but just that his many virtues and sterling qualifications should be recognized, therefore

Resolved: By Marvin Mills Post No. 212, Central City, Iowa, that while we bow in humble submnission to the will of the Most High, we do none the less mourn the loss of our comrade and friend.

Resolved: That in the death of Wm. H. Goodlove this post laments the great loss of one who was ever ready to proffer the hand of aid and the voice of sympathy to the needy and distressed, and whose utmost endeavors were ever exerted in doing good to his comrades and fellowmen.

Resolved; That it is but a just tribute to the memory of the departed to say that in deeply regretting his removal from our midst, we sincerely mourn for one who was worthy of our kindest regard.

Resolved: That we tenderly condole with the family of our comrade in this their hour of trial and great sorrow, and commend them for consolation to our Heavenly Father.

Resolved: That our post charter be draped in mourining for a period of thirty days, that these resolutions be spread upon the records of Marvin Mills Post, that they be published in the Central City News-Letter, and also that a copy be sent to the members of the family of our deceased comrade.



Committee Willard Butters, W. F. Budd, Alex. McDonald.[29]



February 8, 1917

Harold Goodlove returned home Saturday night after a weeks attendance at the short course at Ames.[30]

• February 8, 1940: The establishment of a ghetto in Lodz is ordered.[31]

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• February 8, 1942

• The first transport of Jews from Salonika is sent to Auschwitz. [32]

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• February 8, 1942: Much to the disappointment of the Nazis only 359 Jews (137 women) from the Kovno ghetto arrived in Riga. The German Civil Administration in Lithuania had originally requested 1,000 male Jews.[33]



February 8, 1944?:1944: The Nazis deported 1,000 Jews from Holland to Birkenau, including 268 hospital patients.[34][5]

February 8, 1949: Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the highest Catholic official in Hungary, is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People's Court. Outraged observers in Western Europe and the United States condemned both the trial and Mindszenty's conviction as "perversions" and "lynchings."

Mindszenty was no stranger to political persecution. During World War II, Hungary's fascist government arrested him for his speeches denouncing the oppression of Jews in the nation. After the war, as a communist regime took power in Hungary, he continued his political work, decrying the political oppression and lack of religious freedom in his nation. In 1948, the Hungarian government arrested the cardinal. Mindszenty, several other Catholic Church officials, a journalist, a professor, and a member of the Hungarian royal family were all found guilty of various crimes during a brief trial before the Communist People's Court in Budapest. Most had been charged with treason, trying to overthrow the Hungarian government, and speculation in foreign currency (illegally sending money out of the country). All but Mindszenty received prison sentences ranging from a few years to life.

Mindszenty was the focus of the trial. During the proceedings, the prosecutors produced several documents implicating Mindszenty in antigovernment activities. The Cardinal admitted that he was "guilty in principle and in detail of most of the accusations made," but he vigorously denied that his activities were designed to overthrow the Hungarian government. Nevertheless, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The reaction to Mindszenty's conviction was swift and indignant. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin declared that the trial was an affront to Britain's understanding of liberty and justice. The Vatican issued a statement proclaiming that the Cardinal was "morally and civilly innocent." In the United States, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (Democrat-Texas) stated that the "Christian world cannot help but be shocked over the verdict." Protests were held in a number of U.S. cities, but the protests did not change the verdict.

The case was significant in demonstrating the depth of the anticommunist movement in Hungary. In 1956, Mindszenty was released when a reformist government took power in Hungary. Shortly thereafter, Soviet troops entered Hungary to put down anticommunist protests. Mindszenty took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Budapest and stayed inside the embassy grounds until 1971. That year he was recalled by the Vatican and settled in Vienna, where he died in 1975.[35]

February 8, 2010

I get Email!

Hi Jeffrey

A few years ago I attended at lecture at the skirball museum in LA. The lecturer is a noted authority on Crypto-Jews. It was a fascinating talk, but the one thing I came away with was his description of a group of Catholics who knew they had to play cards on Friday night. They had no idea why they played cards but knew that it was part of the family culture. Researching this-it was found that to hide from the authorities the conversos would play cards as a front for observing Shabbat. Susan Dushane

Susan, Thank you. I was wondering if recall the lecturers name? I would like to find out more about this. We discovered that in the area where our ancestors lived in Ohio in the early 1800's there were Jews living there and still do. We were told that because of the early Methodist adherence to the Old Testament that Jews felt comfortable in joining these remote congregations. I would like to find out more about this and other areas as our ancestors were members of this early remote Methodist church.. Jeff




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[2] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mary-queen-of-scots-beheaded



[3] M E M O I R S OF C LAN F I N G O N BY REV. DONALD D. MACKINNON, M.A. Circa 1888

[4] On This Day in America by John Wagman.

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[6] [Beverley Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, The Original 34 Volumes Reprinted in 3, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1988) 2: 25.] Chronological Listing of Events In the Lives of Andrew Harrison, Sr. of Essex County, Virginia, Andrew Harrison, Jr. of Essex and Orange Counties, Virginia, Lawrence Harrison, Sr. of Virginia and Pennsylvania Compiled from Secondary Sources Covering the time period of 1640 through 1772 by Daniel Robert Harrison, Milford, Ohio, November, 1998.

[7] The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995

[8] . [James Edward Harrison, A comment of the family of ANDREW HARRISON who died in ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA in 1718 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: privately printed, no date), 51.] Chronological Listing of Events In the Lives of Andrew Harrison, Sr. of Essex County, Virginia, Andrew Harrison, Jr. of Essex and Orange Counties, Virginia, Lawrence Harrison, Sr. of Virginia and Pennsylvania Compiled from Secondary Sources Covering the time period of 1640 through 1772 by Daniel Robert Harrison, Milford, Ohio, November, 1998.

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[10] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.

[11]Wither’s Border warfare, pp. 232, 233 Washington-Irvine Correspondence, Butterfield, 1882.

[12] Diaries of George Washington, University Press of Virginia, 1978

[13] Rev. War Pension File for John and Nancy Vance, W 6338

John Vance, served from VA W 6338. File received May 1980 from National Archives.

PETITION OF JOHN VANCE;To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislature of the State of Virginia,

Gentlemen, Your petitioner humbly sheweth that in the year seventy-six I turned out a Volunteer under Captain Stevenson as sargeant and Clerk to the Company and marched to Williamsburg, and then joined the eighth Virginia regiment commanded by Colonel Peter Milinsky and marched from there to Charles Town in South Carolina, and the Company I belonged to, with two more companys, was sent to assist at the Battle of Sulivans Island, from thence we marched to Sunsberry in Georgia under General Lee and remained there untill our time of service was out. I then returned to Fort Pit and then joined the 13th Virginia regiment commanded by Colonel Crawford in Captain Robert Bell's Company, and acted as Sargeant Major to the said regiment, and part of the said regiment was sent down to join the main army at Philadelphia under General Washington where I then acted as Agetant for said regiment for three months, was at the battle of Brandywine, and at the Battle of Germantown, wounded through the cheek with a bayonet, and sometime after the Battle General Milinsbuy gave me a very honorable discharge, which I took good care uf until my house was burned down by accident, and so lost it, and the wound I received in my leg still continues to run and so disables me to walk that I am not able to labour for my support, being now sixty-seven years of age, and as I served in our Revolutionary War for Liberty, I hope and trust that your honorable body will take my poor and distressed situation under your serious consideration, and grant me as a poor old soldier such relief as may support me in my old age. And you Petitioner as in duty bouned shall ever pray,

John Vance



[14] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett p. 910.3

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[16] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett p. 910.12

[17] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove

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[19] Gerol “Gary” GoodloveConrad and Caty, 2003

[20] Klu Klux Klan: A Secret History.1998 HIST.

[21] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/boy-scouts-movement-begins

[22] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-of-a-nation-opens

[23] The First World War, Part 5 of 10. 10/18/2003.

[24] www.wikipedia.org

[25] Buck Creeek Paruish, 11; William R. Ferguson, The Biography of Lenox College, 25.

[26] There Goes the Neighborhoo, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 146-147.

[27]Much of this biographical information was obtained from Delaware County History, 1914, vol. II.

[28] http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quakers/qr-klan.htm

[29] Linda Pedersen Papers

[30] Winton Goodlove Papers.

[31] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1762.

[32] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1770.

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[35] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cardinal-mindszenty-of-hungary-sentenced